Youth4Life
The Youth4Life podcast answers THE question of today's generation: Why should I be 4 Life? Recorded with a live youth audience, each Youth4Life podcast focuses on a single life topic and provides facts, discussion starters, and opportunities for youth to become Gospel-motivated voices 4 Life!
Episodes
97 episodes since 2021
Intrusive Thoughts - Y4Life Staff Chat
Where do intrusive thoughts come from? Are intrusive thoughts connected to life issues? How should we as 4 life Christians go about navigating intrusive thoughts? Join Y4Life Director Michelle and Y4Life Media Resource Assistant Diana this week...
September 18, 2024
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30:14
Does Life Have A Purpose? with Rev. Matt Thompson
The world will tell you that there is no order or purpose in life and that your life has no real meaning. This is simply not true. God created the world with order and design, and every part of creation serves a purpose. You also were created f...
September 11, 2024
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38:45
Y4LIFE Favorite - Surrogacy with Rev. Dr. Scott Stiegemeyer
Youth4Life Podcast Favorite - Surrogacy with Rev. Dr. Scott StiegemeyerGuest Rev. Dr. Scott Stiegemeyer returns to talk about where surrogacy came from, the different ways surrogacy is used in our culture, and the practical and e...
August 21, 2024
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1:13:46
Y4LIFE FAVORITE - Beginning of Life Bioethical Issues with Rev. Dr. Scott Stiegemeyer
Youth4Life Podcast Favorite - Beginning of Life Bioethical Issues with Rev. Dr. Scott StiegemeyerTalking about in-vitro fertilization and other assistive reproductive technologies can be confusing. In this episode, Rev. Dr. Scott...
August 09, 2024
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1:11:09
Y4LIFE FAVORITE - Godly Womanhood with Deac. Rose Adle
Youth4Life Podcast Favorite - Godly Womanhood with Deac. Rose AdleDeaconess Rose Adle is on the podcast this week to teach us about what godly womanhood looks like. She starts in Genesis with Eve, who she was created to be, and h...
July 24, 2024
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49:25
Y4LIFE FAVORITE - Biblical Manhood with Rev. Jeff Hemmer
Youth4Life Podcast Favorite - Biblical Manhood with Rev. Jeff HemmerPastor Jeff Hemmer, author of the book Man Up!, joins us on the podcast this week to teach us about Biblical manhood. He presents his definition of masc...
July 10, 2024
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1:08:48
Y4LIFE FAVORITE - Addressing Gender Brokenness with Rev. Brian Barlow
Youth4Life Podcast Favorite - Addressing Gender Brokenness with Rev. Brian BarlowPastor Brian Barlow (vicar at the time of recording) discusses gender identity, homosexuality, and what role the Gospel has in addressing the broken...
June 26, 2024
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1:01:51
An Update on Abortion
It’s time for an update! Where do states stand on the abortion issue? Which laws are being challenged and which challenges have been overturned? And have there been any other major victories since the Dobbs case? And our questions don’t end the...
May 29, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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1:04:44
Standing 4 Life in a Culture of Death - with Dr. Gene Vieth
Life issues have a tendency to become controversial topics. Take, for example, the issues of abortion, co-habitation, promiscuity, pornography, and gender ideology - they’re probably not the first topics you’d broach at the lunch table. It’s ea...
May 15, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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1:06:03
What's On The Table? News Stories from April 2024
Table Talks 4 Life are BACK! This week the Y4Life Team is joined by Lizzie Gatchell from CUC4Life to talk about what's been in the news recently. From the 'Dignitas Infinita' recently released by the Vatican to a 28 year old woman opting to end...
May 01, 2024
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1:05:18
IVF and the Alabama Ruling
What’s all the fuss with Alabama? Perhaps you’ve heard about a court decision in Alabama that’s just a little bit (okay, more than a little bit) controversial. Perhaps you’ve heard that the court’s decision declares embryos created throug...
April 17, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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1:09:01
Hope for the Homeless with Pastor Tyler Cronkright
Homelessness. Visit any major city (and most smaller ones!) and you’ll find people struggling with housing insecurity. Perhaps it looks like a high school student floating from one couch to the next. Or maybe you see evidence of homelessness un...
April 03, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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1:01:30
Martyred for the Faith with Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller
"Our suffering reminds us that Jesus has suffered in our place." -Rev. Bryan WolfmuellerThe Gospel is dangerous to those who would rather reside in the dark, but Christians are called to be carriers of the light, and to carry that light...
March 20, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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51:11
Persecuted 4 Life with Melanie Standiford
Being for life can be risky, and that risk sometimes comes with very real consequences. Just ask Melanie Standiford, a for-life Christian who lost her job because of her for-life views. Was it worth it?Join us this week to hear Melanie’s...
March 06, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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54:12
Upholding Life in Cambodia
This week, Aimee Cima joins us all the way from Cambodia! She and her family have been serving in southeast Asia for more than 15 years where they are actively involved in upholding the lives of those they serve. Aimee will show us what l...
February 21, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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56:42
Exploring God's Work in India
India is a land of more than a 1.5 billion people and 333 million gods. Its people speak 1,652 different languages and endure caste discrimination. The vast majority of Indians are Hindu or Muslim; only 2% of the population is Christian.&nb...
February 08, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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57:35
Family in Times of Transition
The transition from high school to college or from college to career, is an exciting one. Yet, it can also cause uncertainty, especially when those transitions change relationships within our families. Society would suggest that transitioning i...
January 24, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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1:02:16
The Blessing of Large Families
How can having a large family be a blessing? How do children help to create strong marriages? How do parents mold and shape children in a large family? Rev. Adrian Sherrill and his wife Linda join us this week to help answer these questions and...
January 10, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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54:57
Midwives, Doulas, and More!
Have you wondered what it might be like to be a birth doula? Do you have questions about midwives versus OBGYNs? What does it look like to be in a vocation that upholds life at birth? We'll explore all of these questions and more in this specia...
December 27, 2023
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44:17
When Families Face Loss
Chad Bird joins us on the podcast this week to talk about when families face loss. He tells us about his son Luke, who died unexpectedly as a young adult, and the changes it brought about for his family. Chad will tell us about the ways that he...
December 13, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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59:00
What's On The Table? News Stories from November 2023
This week, we head back to the table to discuss stories in the news, except this time, we're joined by two of our Y4Life college leaders! Emma and Anna join us this week as we discuss abortion laws, IVF, and the modern U.S. family. Emma...
November 29, 2023
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1:10:34
The Gift of a Newborn
What does a family look like at its beginning? What does a couple do to prepare for the gift of a newborn? What are the gifts and joys a new baby brings? What are the difficult realities? Emilyann Wert, deaconess and teacher in Grand Rapi...
November 15, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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46:16
Them Before Us
We often think about the right that all children have- the right to life. But what about a child's right to his or her biological parents- both mother and father? Katy Faust, author of Them Before Us, joins us this week to discuss the ...
October 30, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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54:02
The Gift of Pregnancy Resource Centers
Have you ever been involved with your local pregnancy resource center? Would you like to be involved with your local center? Join us as we talk with Katie Willman, pregnancy resource center director in Indianapolis. She'll teach us about the gi...
October 18, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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51:33
Showing Christian Mercy Through Child Foster Care
Have you ever thought about participating in foster care? Rev. Robert Franck, pastor at Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Duluth, Minnesota, joins us to teach about the importance of foster care in our society today. He gives us a variety of ways ...
October 04, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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48:48